Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and no longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.
Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence
When human will becomes sovereign, unencumbered by nature and divorced from God, we are left with movements—people organized to impose their will on their adversaries. This is the terminal product of historicist philosophy and modern social science: the war, not of all against all, but of movement against movement.
At the bottom of the rot is a set of doctrines that have remade the American government and are remaking the society. These doctrines are the abnegation of the Declaration of Independence. Under these doctrines there are no truths that last, no commands from above that must be obeyed. There is only what people do to one another, and by this process they shape the society and each other. What they ought to do does not enter into it.
Today’s Firestorm and the Declaration, by Larry P. Arnn. Imprimis 11/25, Volume 54/Issue 11
In a republic, representatives are democratically elected, but then, those who are elected are expected to exercise their governing authority according to the established rule of law. Yet, many representatives are under the impression that they are supposed to test the current mood of the people and represent accordingly. This mentality reduces the republican form of government to a virtual democracy. The popular opinion of the people is unstable because the mood of the mob can be easily manipulated and can change from day to day, especially in our age of instant mass communication. In contrast, the rule of established law is not easily changed and provides stability. This is why the founders chose a republic instead of a democracy as the American form of Government.
Brad Sherman, Iowa Republican candidate for Governor, “Libation #114” 7/19/25 email.
If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn, cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg. 387
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
None of our problems are beyond our constitutional order’s power to solve. What is it we need, after all? We need a Congress that acts like a legislature rather than a company of moralizing performance artists. We need a president who acts like a responsible chief executive rather than a drunken king. We need a judiciary that acts impartially in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of the land rather than in a partisan manner. And we need to disperse the political power that is now concentrated in the hands of the Washington establishment.
In short, the solution to our problems is not to scrap or transcend the Constitution, but to start obeying and applying it again. Under that document, “We the People” already possess every power we need to reestablish majority rule, minority rights, democratic accountability, equal justice under law, and national sovereignty.
Kevin D. Roberts, Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order, Imprimis, October 2024
With few exceptions, the Left as we know it today has rejected populism out of hand, embracing instead Big Government, Big Business, Big Banks, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Labor, Big Ag, Big Media, and Big Entertainment. For the most part, today’s Left is hard at work fortifying the power these institutions wield against the rigors of democratic accountability.
Thus the only hope for a sustainable, democratically legitimate populist reform movement today is on the Right. The question is whether the leaders of the movement can harness the highly negative energy from which the populism emerges and channel it toward a coherent, positive politics of national renewal and reform.
Kevin D. Roberts, Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order, Imprimis, October 2024
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
President Calvin Coolidge, on 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion.
John Adams, as cited in, Daniel Greenfield, Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left, pg xxvii
The Federal Reserve was founded in 1913 and is a state bank backed by Communists.
From 1910 to 2010 the dollar lost 97% of its value through inflation; inflation is a tax theft.
From the 2015 Documentary, AGENDA 2: Masters of Deceit.
“49% of Americans are dependents of the Federal Government.”
2015 Documentary, AGENDA 2: Masters of Deceit.
This is how corrupt our country has become as it enslaves 49% of the population to the government.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.
John Adams, in letter to his wife Abigail on 7 July 1775
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.
John Adams, in letter to his wife Abigail on 7 July 1775
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story (1833)
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington (A Founding Father and 1st President of the U.S.; 1732-1799)
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission. This is the stage of the darkest periods of human history ─ the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
